Journalism++ Stockholm is one of four Swedish projects to receive funding from Google’s Digital News Initiative. Together with the statistician Måns Magnusson we have started developing “Marple”, a highly automated news service for finding especially local stories in public data.

“Open data has been a highly underutilized resource in journalism. We are hoping to change that”, says Jens Finnäs of Journalism++.

“These are the kinds of stories we will be able to find en masse in a soon future. What’s interesting about our methodology is that we are able to shed light on local data stories that rarely get coverage otherwise.”, says Jens Finnäs.